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Linda Pearce

Linda Pearce is the Chief Tennis Writer and general sports reporter for The Age. She writes about a range of sports, including football, netball, and gymnastics. Linda has twice been named Australian tennis writer of the year.

Linda Pearce
Given that the Brisbane International is a WTA tour event rather than a grand slam, Ajla Tomljanovic is representing her birth nation (Croatia), rather than her recently adopted country (Australia).

Linda Pearce
Having seen the winds of change blowing through men's tennis, with two new grand slam champions crowned in 2014, a resolute Roger Federer has returned to Brisbane to start a new season he hopes will...

Linda Pearce
A little while ago, when Sam Groth was just a nice guy with a monster serve and a questionable approach to fitness and discipline, he was aware that his opponents' Plan A was rarely more complicated...

Linda Pearce
Ask Simona Halep whether even this time last year, much less 12 months before that, she could have imagined she would be among the top four seeds at the 2015 Australian Open, and the answer is...

Linda Pearce
Daria Gavrilova was on crutches 12 months ago lamenting her misfortune, as she watched her boyfriend Luke Saville and housemate Storm Sanders contest an Australian Open wildcard playoff she was...

Linda Pearce
Sam Stosur will enter yet another Australian summer as the highest-ranked Australian, building towards the home grand slam she acknowledges is different, if not necessarily harder, than any of the...

Linda Pearce
Rafael Nadal admits that the last time he set foot on an Australian tennis court was one of the most difficult: last January, when a back injury, misdiagnosed as sportsmanship by a cynical crowd,...

Linda Pearce
Top seeds Luke Saville and John-Patrick Smith, No. 4 Ben Mitchell and defending champion Jordan Thompson have advanced to the semi-finals of the Australian Open wildcard playoff, with the coveted...

Linda Pearce
Olivia Rogowska is determined to keep reminding herself that this has been her best season, even as the late-entry top seed finds herself back at Melbourne Park attempting to win an Australian Open...

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Linda Pearce
Daria Gavrilova has Vegemite and avocado on toast each morning, swears an AFL allegiance to Carlton through her boyfriend and fellow junior grand slam winner Luke Saville, and is still trying to...

Linda Pearce
Among the various health and feud-related subplots entwined in one of the feelgood stories of the tennis year - Switzerland and Roger Federer's maiden Davis Cup title in France a fortnight ago - is...

Linda Pearce
If Nick Kyrgios' purple Newcombe Medal suit was not quite loud enough, the Wimbledon quarter-finalist also appeared keen to make a particular verbal statement at the recent tennis awards function.